Domenico Cavagnari

Domenico Cavagnari (20 July 1876-2 November 1966) was the Chief-of-Staff of the Italian Navy from 1934 to 1940, preceding Arturo Riccardi.

Biography
Domenico Cavagnari was born on 20 July 1876 in Genoa, Italy, and he served in the 1911 Italo-Turkish War and the 1915-1918 World War I. In 1925, he was promoted to Captain in the Royal Italian Navy, and from 1929 to 1932 he was the director of the naval academy at Livorno. Cavagnari's most important post came in 1934 when Benito Mussolini appointed him as Chief-of-Staff of the Italian Navy, and he increased the size of the navy as the Interwar Years were coming to a close. At the start of World War I, the Battle of Punta Stilo and the Battle of Taranto saw the Italian navy suffer disasters, and Cavagnari was replaced by Arturo Riccardi as Chief-of-Staff of the Navy. Cavagnari died in Rome in 1966.